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This is a partial list of federal Hethian laws with a brief description of Hethian legal processes.
A pre-Principate, tribal law (i.e. a Chieflaw) is written in Ancient Bandard and usually named after its originating tribe in the possessive (genitive) case. Usually, the law is further distinguished by a term or short phrase describing the contents of the law. The terms for "law," "right," and "privilege" (Ancient Bandard: rehtē, witōþą, furīz-rehtē, aiwaz, lagą) are interchangeable as the nominative noun. Chieflaws are differentiated from all other laws due to being written in the masculine or neuter form.
An early Hethian law, written in the Ancient Bandard or Ancient South Bandard languages, is usually named for the sponsoring chieftain or legislator and designated by the possessive (genitive) case of their given name, in the feminine form. When a law is initiated by two or more legislators, it is the given name of both, with the senior legislator's name first and followed by the nominative "law" word, then added with the junior legislator name(s) in the prepositional (dative) case, all in the feminine form. Usually, especially with a Principal's legislation, the law is further specified with a short phrase describing the content of the law, to distinguish it from other legislation sponsored by the same legislator. The terms for "law," "right," and "privilege" (Ancient Bandard: rehtō, witōþō, furaizōz-rehtō, aiwą, lagą; Ancient South Bandard: rehtu, witōþu, forurz-rehtu, aiwu, lag) are interchangeable as the nominative noun, in the feminine form.
A middle Hethian law, written in Old Bandard, Old High Bandard, Old West Vodean, or Old Nise-Vodean, is usually named for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the possessive form (Old Bandard, Old High Bandard; nominative case with "-s" genitive suffix) of their given name, in the feminine form, or by the possessive form of their given name without gendered form (Old West Vodean, Old Nise-Vodean; subjective form with "-s" third-person singular ending; Old West Vodean and Old Nise-Vodean do not have gendered forms). Like early Hethian laws, if two or more legislators are responsible for a law, the law is named after both of their given names, with the senior legislator's name first and the junior(s) last, both in possessive form, combined with the word for "and," with the law word at the end, all in the feminine form (Old Bandard, Old High Bandard) or without gendered form (Old West Vodean, Old Nise-Vodean). The terms for "law" or "right" (Old Bandard: rëht, rëhta, witat, wett, ēwa; Old High Bandard: rëht, witat, witut, weett, ēwa, ēea; Old West Vodean: reht, riht, reoht, rieht, lag, laga, āwa; Old Nise-Vodean: riht, reht, ryht, ryght, righte, lagu, lagh, logh, lawe, laue) are interchangeable as the nominative noun, in the feminine or neuter form (Old Bandard, Old High Bandard), or as the subjective noun (Old West Vodean, Old Nise-Vodean).
A late Hethian law, written in Middle Bandard or Bandard, is usually named after its contents in the form of a bibliographic title, with no standard style. The legislator(s) responsible for a law are written as a subtitle. Sometimes, a law will follow one of the old styles of legislation titling from the early and middle legislative eras.⁽ᶜᶦᵗᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ⁿᵉᵉᵈᵉᵈ⁾
Some of the laws' contents, especially from Wenda's Book of Laws, are lost. Some lost content is supplemented by contemporary sources, by research conjecture, and by modern Bandard legal practice, but supplementary content is not included in this list.
As an elective monarchy with a feudal, federal-confederal hybrid system of government, the Principate's legislation consisted of federal laws, state laws, common laws, and dependencies laws. Federal laws were applicable to all federated states (i.e. direct and indirect sworn vassals of the Principal, the Principal's own territories, the early ██████ ██ ██████ and later ███████████, and the constitutional allies), unless specified otherwise. Non-federated confederacy states (i.e. non-signatory states, including foreign states united into the Principate by personal union or real union and marches, free cities, tributaries, protectorates, and other client states) were not applicable to federal laws, unless specified otherwise. State laws and common laws depended upon legally distinct regions within the Principate. Dependencies laws are federal laws designated to always apply to confederal client states according to the ███████ Statutory Book.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvjBKSaXZY
Federal laws were passed by the Magistracy, the chief legislative office. The Principal is always in Magistracy if the Principate is at war or the Principal has yet to be in tenure for 12 years. After maturation of Principal tenure, the Chief Assembly will, once per year through a supermajority vote, elect into Magistracy either the Principal, a member of the Chief Assembly, or both as co-magistrates. Should the vote not reach supermajority, then the whole Chief Assembly will hold Magistracy for that year with the Principal as co-magistrate with veto power. If the Principal is a foreign head of state from outside the core territory of the Principate (i.e. not from one of the tribes of Wenda's tribal federation or outside of the later Bandardy state) (such as Principal and Prince ███ █████████ of ███████████), they are not allowed to hold Magistracy alone after their immature tenure, in which case they may be elected into Magistracy along with either a member of the Chief Assembly as co-magistrate or the entire Chief Assembly having veto power through simple majority vote. When there are two individual co-magistrates and they have opposite votes resulting in a tie, then the Chief Assembly will break the tie with a simple majority vote.
The Principal always held Principalship: the autocratic, chief executive and judicial office responsible for enforcing legislation and presiding over criminal cases and civil disputes. The Principal only had legislative power when holding Magistracy or acting as co-magistrate. The Chief Assembly always held the power to introduce legislation and acted as an aristocratic, senatorial, legislative and judicial review body. Under judicial review, the Chief Assembly could veto the Principal's judicial decisions through a supermajority vote, upon which the judicial process for that specific decision will be performed again, with the office of the Magistracy acting as judge. After the introduction of the ██████████████████ ███████ ███ ████████████ law, a jury would also form for a reviewed judicial decision that passed veto, which transferred away some judicial power from the Magistracy.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1n97bxFO6
The █████ █████████████ was a meritocratic, democratic auditing body that analyzed the effectiveness of laws and functioned as a civil service commission. The █████████ ███████ ███████████ was a religious, inquisitorial body imposed by the ███████████ that was meant to seek and apprehend non-practitioners of Saint █████████ idolization. During the ████s-████s, there was also the ██████████████, a government body that was meant to approve appointments, elections, jurisdictional, and gubernatorial assignments.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTj7Xiz9PsN
The Chieflaws (Bandard: Häuptlingsrechte; Old Bandard: Houbitumrëhtin; Ancient Bandard: Hafudamiz-witōþôz), also known as the Chief Privileges or Rights, the Chieftain Rights, Privileges, or Laws, and Wenda's Laws, were established through tradition and household rules enforced by the semi-legendary chieftains of the early Bandard tribal federation. The Chieflaws were originally orally passed down and were first written post-founding of the Principate in Wenda's rehtamazskrībaz (Book of Laws).
Wenda's hafudamiz-witōþôz were in part made common by Gaile's amendments and enforcement.
Most concern public law. These include the unions of the different tribes involved in the founding and conquests of Wenda's tribal federation.
The tribes mentioned in Wenda's rehtamazskrībaz are: the Drusden (Wenda's tribe), Kasnii, Kusnatii, Moregni, Ahulanja, Haithilanja, Erthowaz, Mosdal, Braesrigni, Brugni, Segnfanas, Degn-Azgnaz, Kneotoi, Aldaregni, Zurgartii, and Stromlaz. Within the entry of each Chieflaw, Wenda cites each law as descending from one or multiple tribes.
Swebjōmazwitōþą: Inherited from the Drusden, Kasnii, Kusnatii, and Moregni tribes. The word swebjōs (pres. 1st pl. *suebjōnī; compare sibjōną), meaning to unite, is used in place of a tribe name.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36hw9TVYCL
• This series of laws concerns electoral (and taxable) bodies.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkx8xrrg9Uu
• This law established the tribes in electoral function for the election of magistrates, judges, tax collectors and commanders. Each tribe was divided into households, with each household electing local leaders and each chief household counting as one vote towards the election of inter-tribal leaders and the Principal. A household is defined in these laws as a family with a living grandfather or grandmother and a living father-mother couple with at least one unmarried child, but they did not all have to live in the same residence.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemtG1cgmIA
• This law describes itself as having been practiced in the real union between the Drusden and Kasnii, as well as independently practiced by the Kusnatii and Moregni. The law became formal when the four tribes formed Wenda's tribal federation.
Drusdōnizwitōþą: Inherited from the Drusden tribe.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNO4R7Jdm3
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Kusunauzdijǫ̂witōþą: Inherited from the Kusnatii tribe.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNZ24M8jYt
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Adazkuningǫ̂-furīz-rehtē: Inherited from the Aldaregni tribe.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWutJ8sY9hK
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Minizkunungǫ̂rehtē: Inherited from the Moregni tribe.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt5T6VxoQQ
• This series of laws concerns warfare, conscription, wartime logistics, and battlefield arrangements.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRaxXaULtL
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• This law states that all men of age and healthy body are eligible to be conscripted during times of war. During times of peace, all men and women who have just reached their age of maturity and are of healthy body are required to join their village's or fort's guard, watch, or patrols for at least one season. It is the duty of elders to teach and train young men and women on a basic physical regimen expected for a young warrior. Those who do not have healthy body are required to pay an exemption tax in the form of grain, beer and ale, arms and armor, labor in a warband's camp, or jewelry. Those who evade conscription will be shamed by their neighbors in public display, then put to death. Women, children, the elderly, the infirm, and witches, shamans, and other magic-doers are explicitly exempt from wartime conscription. During peacetime, women are not exempt from conscription for slave-hunting parties or other temporary bands. Special professions are exempt from conscription at the conscriptor's discretion (such as smiths, millers, or fletchers).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWpz9pgi9R
• Volunteer men must provide their own warrior's kit, but conscripts only need to provide, at minimum, 3 throwing spears, a sling with at least 10 slingstones, or a spear and a shield. Women who join a warband's ranks will be given a shield and fletched javelins if they do not possess a warrior's kit. What a "warrior's kit" ("suniwǫ̂sattjini") is composed of is not specified in this law.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAb2fIokOPG
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• Women and men may fight together in a shieldwall, but their sleeping arrangements in an encampment are to be segregated. When quartering, men and women must be segregated if possible. Only picked men may compose the first 3 ranks on the right side of a formation and the last rank on the left, but women and other men may compose the middle of a battlefield formation. Women must perform the same marching and camping duties as men. If a woman is pregnant, she is to not fight and must join the camp followers or return home. If a warrior woman is discovered to have been impregnated by a fellow warrior, she is to be lashed or caned once on the feet and the man is to be gutted and hanged, and once she gives birth she is to serve as a village watchwoman for life and forsake her previous profession.
Drusdōnǫ̂lagą midīsibjammaz: Inherited from the Drusden tribe. The descriptor, midīsibjammaz (masc. pl. dat. midīsibjō), means relationships including blood-relations or relationships and kinships.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9zDZXD7nT
• This series of laws concerns women's rights, marriage, childcare, inheritance, injury compensation in labor and war, and magic, witchcraft and shamanism.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmIpBRAGPS
• This law states that any woman who has bore children to her husband, and at least one of those children has grown to sire their own legitimate child (i.e. a grandchild from her son), will be given the right to co-own all assets that her husband owns, and all asset management must reach her consent before manipulating the asset in any meaningful way, within reason. The term used for asset is a word meaning not-foodstuff property, so this law is assumed to apply to all property except for food items. The law states that women are allowed to own personal food items. The law states that if the manipulation of the asset is insignificant, then it is not within reason, and gives the example of comparing a husband purchasing a couple of nails or a single wooden bowl, which should reasonably not require co-consent, versus a husband selling a sack of nails or a wagonload of bowls, which are a significant asset co-owned by him and his wife.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPp5ErZPJx
• This law states that a man's suniwǫ̂sattjini (warrior collection, war kit) is his property alone and may not be coveted by any other man nor woman. Furthermore, if a woman owns a suniwǫ̂sattjini, then she is subject to conscription laws. A conscripted woman is given the choice to be placed in the same warband as her husband or in an all-women warband. It references the Drusdana Band, an all-female warband that acted as Wenda's personal bodyguard.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGfS5Qb57E
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Kenijōitrǫ̂witōþą: Inherited from the Kneotoi tribe.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFb9mZD7Vhq
• This law concerns conscription for both labor and warfare, labor compensation, and the price of unhusked grain.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJ9wTEqMKX
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• This law states that the price of unhusked spelt is equal in four skraudōikapō (pl. neut. acc. skraudōikapą; bushels(?) (lit. cut/shred/piece-shape; compare skapą) to one unshorn ewe without lamb (a female sheep that has never been pregnant), two skraudōikapō of unhusked flax, three hrengǫ̂skapō (pl. neut. acc. hrengǫ̂skapą; bundles(?) (lit. ring-shape)); compare κίρκος (kírkos), skapą, and bundą) of wheat riverbread (foreign southern import, assumed to be a kind of preserved flatbread), seven days of labor from another person's slave, one sealed pot of beer, one sack of salt (halite rock salt), one-and-a-half sacks of sea salt, one-and-a-half sacks of blushful salt (rose salt, from lowland salt flats), one-and-a-half sacks of yellow salt (grey salt, from coastal salt ponds), or one-third sack of black sea salt (black lava salt, mixed with volcanic minerals). Some items of price comparison for this law are lost content. This law proves that Wenda's tribal federation was in trade contact as far as ███████████ and █████, due to the different kinds of salt mentioned and described.
The Clanlaws (Bandard: Sippenrechte; High Bandard: Besibberwetten; Old Bandard: Sibbunrëhtin; Ancient Bandard: Sibbanz-rehtē, Sibbanz-witōþôz), also known as the Tribal Laws or the Rights of the Tribes, were established and written by Wenda the Great after her first year as the Principal Chieftain and appended by Emilia and Gaile during their own principalships.
Sigizwiniþōzrehtō: 7██. | Presented by Wenda. | Magistracy held by Principal.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡES2xnvcqUE
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Sibjaizōz-furīz-rehtē Sigizwiniþijōi: 7██. | Presented by Wenda. | Magistracy held by Principal. | The genitive term sibjaizōz (fem. gen. sibjas; kinship) is used in lieu of a legislator's name, with Wenda's name instead inhabiting the dative field.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsce7GcZogl
• This series of laws concerns a redefinition of electoral bodies, household legal allowances, and adoption.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9n4watN3P
• This law describes that due to the Sibjaswitōþō Chief Right's definition of a local-electoral household, fathers and mothers in tribes where the electoral system was newly introduced (i.e. not the Drusden or Kasnii tribes) were preventing their youngest adult child from marrying in order to preserve their vote validation. To amend that problem, this law redefines a household as a residence with a living father-mother couple and at least one unmarried, prepubescent child, a living father-mother couple with a living grandfather or grandmother (i.e. caretakers of a grandparent), or a living married couple with a living father or mother (i.e. caretakers of a parent).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4uOBfZfG5
• This law also forbids parents from preventing their postpubescent, but non-adult (believed to be ages 12-14), children from marrying, given that the child's marital counterpart's guardian(s) approve of the marriage (i.e. only one side's legal guardian(s) need to approve for a marriage to be valid, given consent by the other side's marriage candidate).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUyE4lepRt
• This law also acknowledges that legal guardians can be blood-unrelated (i.e. adoptive) or tangentially related (e.g. grandparent or aunt/uncle) to their wards and will still count towards all laws requiring parentage, except blood-rites. It specifies that its own contents referring to "father-mother" and "grand[parents]" are subject to this acknowledgement. In other words, this law officially legalized adoption, though evidence suggests adoption was commonplace anyways.
Sigizwiniþōzrehtō fraþedōz: 7██. | Presented by Wenda. | Magistracy held by Principal. | The descriptor, fraþedōz, has unknown meaning (possibly calqued from pro-oleō-āsyos, meaning member of the lowest class whose only contribution to the State is their offspring (lit. someone who produces offspring); compare dataler, proletarius; fem. acc. plural of *fraþedaz).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FSQhHefqh
• This series of laws concerns a marital reform, ███ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████ ████████ ███████████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ████████████ ██ ████ █ ██████ ██ █████ █ ███████ ██ ████████████ ███ █████████ █████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████████ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ████████112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTctq7E2si
• This law states that higher-status families may not force a postpubescent child from a lower-status family to marry, which was a problem due to the one-sided parental consent requisite for marriage from the Sibjaizōz-furīz-rehtē Sigiswinthijōi. Dowries must also be paid in full for postpubescent, non-adult marital candidates even if the marriage is one-sided. This law is defined as retroactive, so all one-sided-consent marriages that exist must now pay dowries to the counterpart's families. The law states that this also applies to tribes that pay dowries only for women and girls (this implies that some tribes pay dowries differently).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrOwIe6Yjd
• This law allows marriage between two adults who have yet to bear children to be nullified by their master, chieftain, or other appropriate authority, should the couple seek it. Adults who have children may not divorce.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqf2KOFraa
• This law instates a minimum marital age, 14 years. The law states that ages before that may be betrothed, but not married. This is implied to be the age of majority (and thus adulthood). It states that the previous laws about postpubescent, non-adult marital candidates are now to applicable to betrothal candidates.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP84vkSNVTy
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Amalagardōzwitōþō: 8██. | Presented by Emilia. | Magistracy held by Principal.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkodOj3WFM
• This law forms the haubudamannunz-samnōndzsatiþi (Chief Assembly; lit. grouping of chieftains) and gives it legislative powers.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyuOcbWQMl
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Amalagardōzrehtō samalōnunz-anþōi-hīwarādum: 8██. | Presented by Emilia. | Magistracy held jointly by Principal. | The descriptor, samalōnunz-anþį-hīwarādum (fem. acc.(?) samalōn, fem. dat. andi, & fem. dat. hīwarād), means assembly and family/marriage.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ765BvC0ma3
• This series of laws concerns concubinage, public exposure, extramarital affairs, clothing conformity, the standardization of adoption procedures, same-sex joint-asset management, the expansion of bureaucratic bodies, reforms to the Chief Assembly, and a redefinition of inter-tribal electoral bodies.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVmXmtRiAT
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• This law states that two individuals of the same sex may jointly own domestic, non-merchant assets as an elderly couple would in marriage, except when the two individuals are related by blood as direct family or through an uncle-aunt couple (i.e. first cousins).112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8YnUGNjDq
• This law expands the number of bureaucrats working at tax collection offices, logistical hubs, and other government facilities. It also reforms how bureaucrats are legally classified and the hierarchy within bureaucratic systems. Bureaucrats became a legally distinct career category as well as similar in style and structure to the military's logistical groups.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZYGyR789T
• This law redefines a tribe's electoral status as giving a certain number of seats depending on population, rather than one seat per tribe. An arithmetical formula is used in lieu of a flat number in order to find the number of seats a tribe deserves. Emilia states in this law that future population growth will thus be accounted for.
Gajilezandōzrehtu: 8██. | Passed by Gaile. | Magistracy held by Principal.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqDADpA6lK
• This law gives all officials the right to retire from their post, including the Principal, and gives the Principal the right to nominate candidates for any election.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmVqD7upAm
• This law retroactively gave Emilia her right to step down from principalship and nominate Gaile as her successor. The law states this specifically, and that Gaile was elected by slight majority, and thus was elected lawfully due to having been adopted by the late Wenda.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4F2J0oZu9n
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Gajilezandōzlag Emelgardīni: 8██. | Presented by Gaile and Emilia. | Magistracy held by Principal.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejGGWkVHKt
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The Headlaws (Bandard: Rektorenrechte; High Bandard: Hoofdswetten; Old Bandard: Rēgtoreonorëhtin; Old High Bandard: Hōvideswitut), also known as the Principal Laws; refers to all laws written after the end of Wenda's direct lineage with the death of Emilia. These laws applied to all citizens, vassals, and visitors within the Principate.
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A/N:
This chapter is unfinished and subject to change (the big blocks of blackout text are the unfinished bits).
In the future, I may end up splitting this chapter into two chapters. One for the list of laws and one for the description of legal processes and practices.
Tidbits:
There's a religious organization's name that's redacted here (the one that imposed an inquisitorial government body upon the Principal), but I can't figure out a name for it. It has a high priest of sorts, but not a pope or pontiff w/ absolute power, and they idolize and pray towards a specific saint, but do not worship a god. No clue what I oughta call them.
If you haven't noticed yet, all the short, blacked-out bits of text are due to me being lazy and not bothering to find a period-accurate and language-appropriate name nor a consistent date according to in-universe timelines :P (I just like proto & old languages, don't hate on me 🥺👉👈) Any bigger blacked-out text is where I want to implement more content in the future.
Old West Vodean eventually evolved into a distinct dialect of Bandard that almost classifies as a new language entirely (I'm still deciding whether it oughta be full Vodean, another language, or some Vodean/Vodic dialect of South Bandardy). Old Nise-Vodean evolved into a new language descended from the Nision Order's crusaders. The Nisionians' descendants end up speaking that world's version of English, whose further descendants are responsible for this fictional wiki website, Numépedia. Voden is a Bandard quasi-colony similar to Prussia and the Teutonic Order.
"Hethian" refers to an ancient empire, similar to how the Holy Roman Empire called themselves Roman. Bandardy is the not-Germany of this universe. The not-Roman Empire (the Hethians) were steppe nomads like the Huns or Mongols who settled down, much like the magyars of Hungary. Their culture mostly assimilated into the locals before the end of the Empire, but there is a small country with an enclave of ethnic Hethians left (ironically, they aren't a part of the Hethian Principate for much of the Principate's history, kinda like how the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines, my GOAT and the true heirs to Rome ⁽ᵗʰᶦˢ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉ ʷʳᶦᵗᵗᵉⁿ ᵇʸ ᵗʰᵉ ᴮʸᶻᵃⁿᵗᶦⁿᵉ ᶠᵃⁿ ᶜˡᵘᵇ⁾) were never a part of the HRE and the city of Rome was part of HRE sporadically or only early on (i forgor)). At least, that's what I have planned out for now.
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